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Interviews. he also agreed to testify for the government in court and even to participate in undercover activities. a major victory for the mueller team. >> huge. and i would capitalize h-u-g-e and add four exclamation points. >> of interest to prosecutors manafort's tucrump tower meetin in 2016. >> before, during and after, those events could all lead to a conspiracy with the russians to affect our democratic process. that's against the law. >> mueller's team may also ask about manafort's attempts during the trump campaign to reach oleg deripaska, the alleged oligarch seeking information on a...

Mueller's probe. >> he happens to be a very good person, and i think it's very sad what they've done to paul manafort, thank you very much. >> reporter: but the president appeared to believe that manafort would never betray him by cooperating with the special counsel. in one tweet, trump referred to his former campaign chair as a brave man who wouldn't break. >> by calling manafort brave and the guy who would not flip or break, donald trump may have been urging his former campaign chairman to stand strong, hang in there, take his lumps, and wait for a party. >> i think that donald trump though...

Fights, and manafort was the master of this universe. he teamed up with a guy named roger stone who is going to be a recuring character in the manafort story and the story of donald trump. >> with manafort and stone, he became president of the young republicans, establishing the two as potential king makers. >> paul manafort came out of the womb as an operator. >> before his journey to washington, manafort's story began here in new britton, connecticut in 1949. >> new britton a known as the hardware state, the home of black and decker, very hard scrabble place. >> still, paul's grandfather, an...

Oligarch demanded an accounting for the $18.9 million invested in a telecommunications company with manafort. when he attempted to contact manafort, he reportedly refused to respond. coming up -- >> he was in debt to a powerful russian oligarch, which would make anyone worried about how you're going to get money back to pay this person back. >> as manafort attempted to change his fate, he looked back to the united states and a long shot presidential candidate. >> we will make america great again. we will make america gre again. alright, i brought in new max protein

Because when you hear ukraine in this trial, when you see the tens of millions of dollars coming into manafort's pockets because he's working on behalf of a pro-russian ukrainian candidate, understand, we're talking about russian money. that's what we're talking about here. so this does have significance. and if indeed the prosecution is impliedi implying that the $10 million payment was a payment not a loan, that is significant. with gates taking the stand, this is a confident move by the special counsel. he's essentially calling manafort's bluff. he knows manafort is going to blame all of th...